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#150 - David McGrogan - The British State Is Not Broken And The System Is Working Exactly As It Was Designed

2026-10-2901:06:12

David McGrogan is a legal scholar at Northumbria University and the author of the Substack News from Uncibal. In this conversation, we think out loud about: • Why the intelligentsia wanted to show mercy to the most treasonous man in British history • Rebecca West and the moral vocabulary Britain abandoned • Policing by consent becoming policing by negotiation — and why nobody trusts the police • The shoplifter who comes every day — and why calling the police is a punchline • Bukele, Napoleon,...

#149 - Bella d'Abrera - How Australia Became A Warning For Every Western Democracy

2026-10-2201:00:49

Bella d'Abrera is the former Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia and the author of Mindless. In this conversation, we think out loud about: • How Paulo Freire conquered every teachers' college in the Anglosphere • The deliberate destruction of the humanities — Shakespeare removed, grievance installed • Geoffrey Blainey — death threats for questioning immigration • The state of Australia — demographic transformation an...

#148 - Marie Kawthar Daouda - They Told Her She Was A Victim Of The West. She Became Its Greatest Defender.

2026-10-1501:02:03

Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda is a French-Moroccan scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Not Your Victim. In this conversation we think out loud about: Why a French-Moroccan Oxford scholar wrote a love letter to British civilisationMacIntyre and the question of story — what happens when a civilisation loses its narrativeThe French Revolution as spiritual catastrophe and its influence on the modern universityVictimhood as cultural capital and what it does to the people it claims to l...

#147 - Bernard Hibbs - No Wealth, No Career & No Phone: Inside The Radical Christian Community Hiding In The English Countryside

2026-10-0857:14

Bernard Hibbs is a member of the Bruderhof; an intentional Christian community of three hundred people living in East Sussex without money, without mortgages, and without personal possessions. Everything is held in common and if someone needs something, they ask and they receive it. The Bruderhof have lived this way for over a hundred years. In this conversation we think out loud about: How three hundred people actually live without moneyThe founding of the Bruderhof in nineteen-twenties Germ...

#146 - Father Luke Dysinger OSB - The Last Time Western Civilisation Collapsed One Institution Accidentally Saved Everything

2026-10-0101:03:30

Father Luke Dysinger is a Benedictine monk of Saint Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, California. He trained as a physician, practised family medicine, and at the age of 27 walked away from it all because he fell in love with a way of life centred on prayer. He has lived in the monastery ever since. He studied at the Benedictine House of Studies at Oxford, holds a doctorate in patristic theology, and is now a professor of theology and a bioethicist. In this conversation we think out loud about: Why...

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